ROB ROSE: Vaccines: Whose medical aid money is it anyway?
Medical aid Profmed is adamant the government can’t dip into its reserves without asking members — especially given the state’s abysmal misspending
10 February 2021 - 07:00
There’s a brewing tension in the medical aid sector which touches on South Africans’ rawest emotions today: a growing resentment at escalating taxes which are being squandered, anger over a long history of the unequal nature of health care, and a deep distrust of the government’s ham-fisted Covid-19 response.
The tinder that has ignited this fire, as luck would have it, is the most critical issue facing SA — how to get, and finance, a vaccine for Covid-19...
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